WOOOP WOOOOP WOOOP! BACK AWAY FROM THE VEHICLE WITH YOUR HANDS UP!
The Smart car security alarm is a pretty intense sound. But even it doesn't compare with the likes of Bobbin when she sees someone entering what she considers to be too-close-for-comfort proximity to our car.
I take Bobbin to the coffee shop every Saturday morning for breakfast. We park the Smart in one of the front stalls and sit at the window where we can see it. Actually, we sit by the window because Bobbin loves to people-and-dog watch. Whenever someone walks too close to our car - or worse; has the nerve to touch it - Bobbin stands up in her chair in the middle of the coffee shop and yells "THAT'S MY SMART CAR! DON'T TOUCH MY CAR!" This is all her, totally unprompted, unencouraged and uninfluenced. People in the coffee shop turn around to stare at her and then at our car and then start laughing. The perpetrator of the "crime" outside usually doesn't hear or see any of this.
I do admonish her whenever she does this. It really isn't proper behaviour. I proffer the usual speeches with appropriately stern facial expressions and tone of voice: inside voices please; we do not shout inside; it's ok for people to be curious - they're not hurting anything. But inside I'm laughing hysterically and giving her two-thumbs up :-)
This reaction only started with the Smart. She could have cared less if someone was jumping up and down on the hood of the Audi or smashing the windows with a crowbar. It's gotta be the fact that it's almost her size that makes her especially fond of the Smart.
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